Example sentences of "will tend to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is that within a structure X Y based on assignment , the surface realization of instances of qualification within X ( however many there may be ) will tend to be such that subordinate items will precede , and within Y such that they follow the item qualified , provided in each case that no further instance of assignment supervenes .
2 A syllable will tend to be prominent if it contains a vowel that is different in quality from neighbouring vowels .
3 But what an officer will know of his colleagues ' districts compared with his own will tend to be particularistic — of salient pollution problems — set in the context of an undetailed and generalized apprehension of the kind of patch a colleague looks after .
4 It also follows that any sufferer primarily addicted to one of these other drugs will tend to be cross-addicted to alcohol .
5 They will tend to be richer and from richer countries , rather than erm than , than the kind of cross-section that we would have liked to have before .
6 If giving is specific , its spread will tend to be uneven .
7 It entails moreover the risk that if the list is long voting will tend to be little more than a popularity poll , with most votes heavily concentrated on the best-known candidates , leaving the election of others to be decided by relatively few votes , cast by electors probably unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole .
8 It was previously suggested that fixed information will tend to be peripheral to the driving task and variable information is more likely to be central , it is thus possible that the amount of these types of information will constrain any effects of attention focusing .
9 So the information in these sections will tend to be static .
10 In the case of bankruptcy , partnerships clearly feel more constrained , since their unlimited liability means the owner/managers have more to lose than in any other case ; they will tend to be risk-averse .
11 Where these features are absent , motivation will tend to be low .
12 Yields in general will tend to be higher for longer term investments , because lenders require to be compensated for giving up their money for long periods of time .
13 It is also a curious facet of human nature that the more you have the more you use so over-use will tend to be rife .
14 ‘ If there is to be talk of a pool of ability , it must be a pool which surpasses the widow 's cruse in the Old Testament , in that when more is taken for higher education in one generation more will tend to be available in the next . ’
15 The unfit person will tend to be flabby and possibly fat .
16 Classroom activities will tend to be those focusing attention on deciphering rather than on interpretation by indexical inference .
17 Because of formula funding , the state of school premises and the amount and quality of equipment will tend to be dependent on pupil numbers .
18 In mass-production industries , where routine , repetitive work is in-built in the production technology , challenging tasks will be difficult to create , and leadership will tend to be autocratic ;
19 ‘ the men at the top of organizations will tend to be ambitious , shrewd and possessed of a non-demanding moral code .
20 Where risks are present they will tend to be single and are likely to be shared by other stimuli ( e.g. the driver going too fast ) .
21 So , to the extent that changes in Y t are due to such changes in v t rather than will appear to be unaffected by expected income as we measure it , and therefore we shall obtain an estimate of α 1 which will tend to be less than the true value of α : 1 .
22 This indivisibility problem will tend to be smaller if each futures contract has a small nominal value , and the total value of the arbitrage transaction is very large .
23 If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus .
24 If the light is warm , say yellow or yellow orange , the halo will tend to be warmer , orange or red-orange as in the halo around the bus headlights in London Bus .
25 The types of information required will tend to be unpredictable and unstructured so that database access will need to be flexible .
26 Time and practice can be the essence of development and each child 's requirements will tend to be different from its neighbour 's .
27 He argued that , because of monopoly power in both the goods and labour markets , wages and prices will tend to be inflexible , at least in the short-run and particularly in the downward direction .
28 This is reduced if there are many possible attributes because each attribute index list will tend to be shorter .
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